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The Bug

Quality:

The Bug - 1992 song by Dire Straits. Article “The Bug” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “The Bug”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 60 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 287 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #12489 in March 2025
  • Global: #252125 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #99413 in March 2025
  • Global: #149384 in August 2008

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
The Bug
40.345
2English (en)
The Bug
33.5642
3Italian (it)
The Bug
26.1196
4Simple English (simple)
The Bug
15.8047
5Czech (cs)
The Bug
3.2586
6Dutch (nl)
The Bug
0.394
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Bug" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Bug
326 136
2Italian (it)
The Bug
7 028
3Dutch (nl)
The Bug
6 741
4Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
The Bug
489
5Czech (cs)
The Bug
256
6Simple English (simple)
The Bug
193
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "The Bug" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Bug
887
2Italian (it)
The Bug
24
3Dutch (nl)
The Bug
10
4Simple English (simple)
The Bug
6
5Czech (cs)
The Bug
4
6Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
The Bug
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Bug" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Bug
45
2Italian (it)
The Bug
8
3Dutch (nl)
The Bug
3
4Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
The Bug
2
5Czech (cs)
The Bug
1
6Simple English (simple)
The Bug
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "The Bug" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Czech (cs)
The Bug
0
2English (en)
The Bug
0
3Italian (it)
The Bug
0
4Dutch (nl)
The Bug
0
5Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
The Bug
0
6Simple English (simple)
The Bug
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Bug" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Bug
86
2Italian (it)
The Bug
58
3Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
The Bug
49
4Dutch (nl)
The Bug
44
5Czech (cs)
The Bug
31
6Simple English (simple)
The Bug
19
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Quality measures

Interwikis

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enEnglish
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itItalian
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nlDutch
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nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
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simpleSimple English
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Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#99413
03.2025 		Global:
#149384
08.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#12489
03.2025 		Global:
#252125
09.2018

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Bug from Wikipedia articles about On Every Street, On Every Street, Come On Come On, Dire Straits discography and Expresso Love. Whereas reading the article about The Bug people most often go to Wikipedia articles on You and Your Friend, On Every Street, Kevin Martin, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Dire Straits.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: The Bug
it: The Bug
nl: The Bug
nn: The Bug
cs: The Bug
simple: The Bug

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information